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American Research Journals Inc., is maintaining 18 open access online international journals list including the journals on Agricultural Sciences, Biosciences, Engineering and Medical journals.

ARJ's mission is to provide a creative platform for highly qualified authors to publish their open access journals and academic journals on a global platform to a broad audience.

ARJ's mission is to provide a creative platform for highly qualified authors to publish their open access journals and academic journals on a global platform to a broad audience.

Bentham revisited!!! Hoax article pulled prior to print. How can we better protect the validity of content with the rapid spread of Open Access Publishing?

So many posts from the Scholarly Kitchen could be linked here because they often write on relevant topics, but this one caught my eye. The discussion about the open access book, which will not be made open access until a year out, is particularly interesting.

Is open access a solution for bridging the digital divide? Many people think so.

American research journals publishes the most rapid and reliable information of open access journals in the development area of agricultural sciences.

I was reading about the small window that opened the other day in the "Great Firewall of China" and then read this article. It bothers me that so many people seem to be ready to send printing presses to a junkyard and rely entirely on electronic distribution of information. First, there is still a HUGE demographic who does not have regular access to the internet. Secondly, what would happen if all of our information could be controlled with a filtering program? And finally, printed material still gets into places that a computer cannot. I read an opinion piece in the NYT before Christmas that discussed how an Afghanistan woman learned to read with the help of her young daughter and the newspaper pieces that wrapped her fish. Are we turning information into something elitist? Is there a parallel between a push to make everything electronic - so only people with Kindles and laptops can get information, and a time not-so-long-ago when literacy was a class distinction? DO WE REALLY WANT TO CREATE A NEW CLASS DISTINCTION BY RESTRICTING INFORMATION TO ONLY THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD ACCESS TO IT?

Fascinating points!!! The printed word has been responsible for the American colonists ability to read the words of the great Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin and perhaps be inspired to foment the continued revolt that brought us America. It brought the thoughts of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela and Adolf Hitler to the world. For good, and less so, the printed word has been a catalyst for change that has moved the world and impacted people around the globe. While there are many who have access to the Internet and PC, there are far greater numbers around the world who have no such access, for them even a phone is a luxury. Many represent the populations of the third world, but high numbers are the disadvantaged right here at home or in other developed nations around the globe. When oppressive regimes and less then optimal economic or geographic conditions prevent technology from bringing information via wire or air wave, the printing press will continue to spread the message. Education, found in the pages of textbooks, passed down from generation to generation or moved around the world, bring knowledge and potential to those who have no access to the Internet. Until, in some distant future when the earth is truly the global nation envisioned by some futurists today, the printing press will hold its place as a global facilitator of knowledge and information.

f all published research anyway so it does really matter much whether most journals are "real" or not--m

Here is some information about open access and the Public Knowledge Project. This piece generated a lot of comments, which are also worth reading.

The debate about open access continues with a hearing that was held in Washington on Thursday.

Response to criticism of the Google Book Settlement by Amazon's Jeff Bezos.

Author-pays model meets bottom-line publisher. The vanity press of scholarly publication?

Debate on the costs of college textbooks.  I think we did a better job at last year's SPI.

This is not likely to have any real effect. Textbooks are sold to a captive market. Those who are paying their tuition without benefit of student loans will buy the books without thinking too much about the cost. Those who are going to school on student loans will go into debt.

Good background for our panel on higher ed publishing.